Techno babbalo obfuscaturo amundo is definitely what's going on here. Because the question remains...is 'El tubo harmonico supremo? What are we talking about? NF vs. no NF, tubes vs. ss, or a whole host of variations in between? There's a lot of options here, never mind the degrees of implementation and where. There's also a lot of amps out there, the majority of which most or all of us have not auditioned or will ever. How much of an influence has the marketplace had on those we have indeed auditioned? I'm here taking up space and I'm telling everyone here that there are aspects of performance that trump the so-called obvious differences between tube and ss amps, rendering them absolutely moot. It just so happens that it's more difficult and takes more skill to design a good ss amp than it does to design a good tube amp. Hence the constant allusion to tubes by the ss market. The ratio is higher for tubes than for ss. I've heard bigger differences among ss amps than between tubes and ss. Ime tube amps sound more alike than do ss amps. That doesn't make them 'better'. It simply reveals a wider playing field within ss topologies.
Tubes vs Solid State - Imaging, Soundstaging, 3D
I have limited experience with tubes having had a couple tube amps with Gold Lion KT88s and EL34s. The majority of amps I have owned have been solid state. In my experience, SS always seems to image more sharply and offer the deepest, clearest field.
Is this common?
Is this common?
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